On Sunday, President-elect Donald Trump said he doesn’t need to get daily intelligence briefings—now or after his inauguration on January 20—because he is, “like, a smart person.” Before he does away with the ritual, he might want to consider a particular time in history when a president did his homework, took his briefings, paid attention to the details and in so doing averted a nuclear war. politico.com
Rick Perry, the Republican former governor of Texas, will be nominated to the be the next United States Secretary of Energy. If confirmed—which is likely—Perry will have a pivotal role in the defense world because he will be responsible for the next generation of American nuclear weapons. foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com
Germany faces a choice between extending the lives of reactors or paying hundreds of millions in cash to some of the nation's biggest utilities. chicagotribune.com
The Trump transition team raised a few eyebrows in Nevada this weekend when they signaled an interest in restarting the project to put in a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain, a hundred miles northwest of Las Vegas. They asked the Department of Energy about any legal barriers to reviving the repository for high-level nuclear waste, which has been mothballed since 2011 when the Obama administration cut off funding. publicnewsservice.com
